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Kelly Going lives in Beacon, New York. After graduating from college, she has had many jobs. These include adult literacy tutor, ticket agent for a major airline, front desk clerk at a resort hotel, and an assistant in a Manhattan literary agency. K.L. Going likes to travel and she has lived in Maine, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and New York.
Fat Kid Rules the World is her first novel. She has stated that the idea for the book came to her while riding on the subway in New York. The novel came together quickly which she feels was due to the fact that she began writing just prior to September 11, 2001. She has said that she may have used the writing as an escape from what was going on in the world around her. Part of the book was inspired by the life and music of Kurt Cobain.. Going had just gotten into vintage punk music and wanted to express her interests through the book. The character in her book that was modeled after Kurt Cobain was Curt. K.L Going struggles with......

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